Ernst Klimt, Austrian
“That Look’s Fine for Around the Office, Tooth Fairy, But When You’re Traveling on Business, We Need You to Wear a Top,” 1892
Oil on canvas
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/// Half-goat Pan, horned and laurel wreath crowned,
consoles Psyche, (she’s sad she’s not drowned).
Eros wouldn’t forgive her,
so she jumped in the river
which expelled the girl here on dry ground.
/// Aphrodite felt jealous dislike
for the girl. Through son, Eros, she’d strike.
His love arrow he’d shoot;
make the girl crave some brute,
but he wounded himself, shouting, “Psych!”
/// Eros spirited Psyche away.
In his palace he forced her to stay.
They’d make love through the night,
darkness blocking her sight,
He’d be gone by the first light of day.
/// The great irony of this odd plan:
Eros looked like a beautiful man.
Yet he hid from her view
when there was no need to,
(unlike hideous goat-bodied Pan).
/// Eros said, “Never look on my face!”
But she did, to her heartfelt disgrace.
Her love, Eros, then left.
Psyche, feeling bereft,
wanted death, but ends up at Pan’s place.
/// Psyche’s butterfly wings Pan won’t mock,
for he sees that the poor girl’s in shock.
“Kid, you could make it big.
Try this modeling gig.
Kneel down topless upon that White Rock.”
/// Pan was filled with an animal passion,
which made Psyche step back, turning ashen.
With his horns would he butt,
or, worse, was he in rut?
Would Pan peter out? After a fashion.